Weed High School | |
Streetaddress: | 909 Hillside Drive |
City: | Weed |
County: | Siskiyou County |
State: | California |
Zipcode: | 96094 |
Country: | USA |
Coordinates: | 41.4278°N -122.3728°W |
Type: | Public |
District: | Siskiyou Union High School District |
Principal: | Danielle Dewhurst |
Superintendent: | Michael Wharton Jr. |
Grades: | 9–12 |
Students: | 195 (2022–23)[1] |
Teaching Staff: | 10.63 (FTE) |
Ratio: | 18.34 |
Rival: | Mt. Shasta High School |
Mascot: | Cougar |
Colors: | Green and white |
Conference: | CIF Northern Section Shasta Cascade League |
Newspaper: | Weed Press |
Homepage: | Weed H.S. |
Weed High School is a secondary school located in Weed, California and is part of the Siskiyou Union High School District.
For the 2006–07 school year, the school had student enrollment of 196, an Academic Performance Index (API) of 727 which is equal to the Siskiyou County average API for the same period, and above the CA state average API of 697. The student to teacher ratio was 30:1, and the student to computer ratio was 2:1. The school's racial/ethnic make-up was 40% white/Caucasian, 29% Latino/Hispanic, 31% black/African-American, which is considered quite diverse for a rural school in this geographic area.[2]
From 1961 through 1964, the Weed Cougars went undefeated in football. The 1963 team was ranked #1 in northern California by the Sacramento Bee,[3] and later was inducted into the Northern California Sports Hall of Fame.[4] In 2024, the Weed Lady Cougars varsity girls basketball won the CIF Northern Regional Division VI Championship. Though officially recognized as such, and with no Division VI schools in Southern California, the Cougars were recognized as the #1 small school in the state.